A street preacher clad in yellow (Mehdi Dehbi) preaches to a crowd in Damascus, urging them to be calm and not to worry about their city being captured by Islamic State, as God has ordained that it will not happen. After a month long sandstorm breaks ISIL’s supply chains, they retreat and the city is saved. Then the preacher, who people take to calling al-Masih, leads hundreds of his followers into the desert, all the way until the border with the Golan Heights, a journey of around 65 kilometres (40 mi). Al-Masih walks over the barbed wire fence and is arrested by the Israel Border Police. Jailed, al-Masih is interrogated by Aviram Dahan (Tomer Sisley), who is Shin Bet (Israel’s internal security agency); he also refuses to provide a real name. Al-Masih turns the tables on Dahan, revealing his name and other facts Dahan feels he could not reasonably be expected to know. Dahan terminates the interrogation and leaves the room. He returns in the early morning hours, but is shocked to find that al-Masih had escaped from detention.